Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.